Re: half an hour?

More to the point in my eyes, how much is your mobile number worth to you? Depending what the phone got dumped in, I'd probably ditch it for a new one after finding it, but I'd want the SIM card and contacts list out of it first.

Reasons to have.......

Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content?

Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content and sending it to its thousands of loyal newsletter subscribers?

Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content and sending it to its thousands of loyal newsletter subscribers for wasting their time?

Reason To Have such stupid news on techdirt whose title did not matches with the content and sending it to its thousands of loyal newsletter subscribers for wasting their time and losing credibility on Techdirt updates?

Reasons for Telling this to Mike Masnick for the sake of all above mentioned reasons that there is no reason to send such reasons on newsletter and there is no such reason to think that "Too Much Free Time" does not provides any reason for "Waste of Time".

Another reason to have a ringtone....
being stuck in a back room with 20+ other programmers with no land line. When a phone it rings it is important to know that someone really wants to talk to at least one of us!

Think of the music!

It could be that he had some heavily DRM'd music on the phone that he couldn't transfer off because it was locked to that device. If someone had found the phone and listed to the music, he could have been sued by the RIAA for making the music available!

Because trash likes to call each other...

"Reason To Have A Distinct Ringtone"? Because they were on a trash pile full of old cell phones that wouldn't stop ringing right?
Wait wait no, the pieces of trash were calling and texting each other right?
Or maybe you really meant that everyone's ringtone sounds like trash, but this guy's was unique. Haha I get it now, quite funny.

Re: all the complaints

C'mon guys it's a good lesson in thinking creatively about recovering your items instead of giving up. Also makes us contemplate what lengths we'd go through to hold onto these things! I'm impressed with the man's determination, I'm sure he didn't regret getting dirty at the dump.

Must've been a fresh battery

Usually, by the time I've realized I misplaced my phone and decide to call it to find it (in his case, add in the time taken to figure out what happened, get to the dump, and begin his search), the battery is so far gone that it wouldn't hold up to a half hour of ringing.